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Artist's illustration showing NASA's New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon. Kids around the world can say hello to Pluto ahead of the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet this summer. A campaign called "Dear Pluto" is asking children to submit greetings to the dwarf planet, both in written and video form.

Faraway Pluto is difficult to study from Earth, so the dwarf planet has remained largely mysterious to scientists and laypeople alike since its discovery in 1930. But Pluto is about to get its first close-up. On July 14, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zoom just 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) from the dwarf planet, capturing supersharp images of its frigid surface.

In the NFL, something that behaves like Pluto's football-shaped moons might be called a wobbly duck. NASA simply calls them astonishing. Instead of steadily rotating through their orbits, two of Pluto's moons "wobble unpredictably," the space agency says, citing new analysis of data from the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA has released 'Pluto Time' web-based widget NASA that would provide earthlings a simulation of noon-time sunlight on the dwarf planet. The widget has been served up in advance of the New Horizons spacecraft's Pluto flyby on July 14. The probe will become the first Earth spacecraft to get an up-close view of the Kuiper Belt object.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is getting closer with its rendez-vous with the dwarf planet in the outer parts of our solar system, and NASA released images on Thursday that give a more defined face to Pluto. This video is featured in these articles: